Recently I have noticed under "C:\Program Files\Common Files\McAfee\AMContent\content\avengine\med" McAfee is creationg directories every day with few .dat files and each directory is occupying 50-60 Mb approx disk space.

These directories were created in the following sequence.

1441.0

1442.0

1443.0 .... so on.

Each directory contains these three file continusly (with Approx sizes)

medclean.dat - 9mb

mednames.dat - 2.14mb

medscan.dat - 47mb

Every day one directory is being created with addition of above files under each directory.

Previously i noticed Mcafee under "C:\Program Files\Common Files\" took around 5B but that instance i haven't investigated which file system occupied that space. and Done a clean installation to fix.

Now i have been observing about the disk usage and found these "culprits" (may be not).

I did some further digging and fortunately because I multi-boot all OS's ranging from XP through to Windows 8 I finally found that elusive AMContent folder in my Windows 8 machine running McAfee SecurityCenter 12.1 Beta. What version of the software are you running? Open it then click 'About' and post the results.

My entire AMContent folder is only 142mb which is really very little - you say yours is growing? How big has it reached now? As far as I know the software stores no more than 30 days-worth of data so there should be a limit to it. Mind yoiu I don't use Windows 8 much and never run scheduled scans anyway, which could make a difference in my case I suppose. I also see the folder in my Windows 7 OS using the same version of the software.

Suffice it to say this folder or its contents can not be deleted otherwise the software probably will malfunction.

Meanwhile I will email a contact of mine to ascertain exactly what that folder is but I can't promise an answer before at least Monday.

From your pic above it appears you are using 11.6 so these folders must be new to that edition and above. I will get back to you on this.

As i said earlier the fodler auto deletes the old conent by keeping few directories with in. So I noticed the size gown till 300mb around and again came down to around 180 mb.

As i guess the files cannot be deleted under "Common Files" directory and even it wont allow to do so.. so i understood it is important to keep them but let them auto clean then selves by the application.

At the moment I wouldn't even try to delete those files as I need to get an answer from my contact regarding this. But I would imagine it will be possible to delete them if a safeguard built-in to SecurityCenter is turned off. However we wont try it until I get the go ahead, if I get it.